I got my cags eliminator a couple of weeks ago but hadn't opened it yet, since there's no reason to (the skip shift light NEVER comes on when the car is hiding under a cover). Anyway, I measured the resistance of the device and it is 24 ohms.

So I was thinking it must just be a 24 ohm resistor packaged up nice in a connector. I've also figured out that the resistor would have to be rated at about ((12 x 12) / 24) = 6 watts to keep from burning up if the voltage was present all the time. The resistor in the eliminator that I got can't be a 6 watt resistor just because it would be too large to fit into the case that they sent. So they must assume that it's only going to be on for a few seconds and that a smaller wattage resistor would work reliably.

My point here is that if any of you want to avoid the $20 cost of buying the eliminator you could just clip the wires and solder on a 24 ohm resistor and cover it with RTV. The whole thing would cost less than a buck.

 

radio shack part #271-1121 pack of 5 .hard to believe people who have an auto like this would do something like that to save a few bucks